OpenSourceFeed : Weekly News Feed 30

11/14/2015 12:13 PM

The Manjaro team announced availability of Manjaro 15.12 Preview 2, second development release of upcoming stable release. This Preview is released just 5 days after release of Preview 1.
From official release announcement, following are some notable changes in this release.
we reworked our preview of all installation options
some UEFI issues got fixed
it is now possible to use the same

11/14/2015 12:00 PM

Netrunner team announced availability of Netrunner Rolling 2015.11, latest mile stone of Arch based rolling GNU/Linux distribution featuring KDE as default desktop environment. This release only applicable for 64 bit OS. 32 Bit continues to be 2015.09.
According to official release announcement, following are some highlights of this release.
Updated to KDE Plasma 5.4.2 and KDE

11/11/2015 09:53 PM

The third episode in our World Without Linux video
series attempts to illustrate what a world without our online social
connection would be like. Of course Linux isn't responsible for all the
successes of Facebook and Twitter but it is certainly the underlying
fuel for making these services scalable and responsive. Mark Zuckerberg,
creator of Facebook, has even credited open source and

11/11/2015 09:46 PM

The Mozilla Foundation introduced availability of Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview for android devices. Mozilla's firefox OS has not received much attention in smart phone market. By releasing Firefox OS for android devices, Mozilla hopes that, it can attract significant amount android users to Firefox OS.
From a news article published in softpedia
Now Mozilla is trying to steal some

11/11/2015 09:39 PM

ClearOS community announced release of ClearOS 7.1.0, latest stable release of CentOS based GNU/Linux distribution designed for server computers, gateways and networks.
ClearOS 7.1.0 is available in three different variations, which includes community edition, home edition and business edition. Each of these flavors can be installed from same ISO, but they features different software

11/10/2015 08:37 PM

Latest issue of distrowatch weekly features a review of recently released Fedora 23. This review remarks that Fedora 23 work well and despite of few issues, Dev Assistant and Software manager are great tools. Also this review softly criticize unavailability of multimedia codes in default installation.
The Fedora distribution is a
Red Hat sponsored community project which regularly ships

11/09/2015 09:41 PM

Chakra GNU/Linux developers announced release of Chakra 2015.11-Fermi, latest milestone of Arch based GNU/Linux distribution that comes with powerful KDE desktop and Qt framework.
Chakra 2015.11-Fermi comes with some notable changes which includes following:
Calamares
a new modern installer which is actively developed, has replaced Tribe,
which has served Chakra well over the years but

11/09/2015 09:32 PM

The Manjaro team announced release of Manjaro 15.12 Preview 1, latest development release of official Manjaro flavor. This release is a result of one month of continuous development effort and also it comes with XFCE 4.12, KDE Plasma 5.4.2, 4.3.0 kernel and all the usual Manjaro and upstream updates.
From official release announcement, following are some notable changes in this release
we

11/09/2015 09:27 PM

The Manjaro community announced release of Manjaro MATE 15.12 Preview 1, development version of latest Manjaro release featuring MATE desktop as default desktop environment. This released is shipped with MATE 1.12.
According to official release announcement, following are major highlights of this release.
Fixes and improvements for GTK3 support across the entire MATE Desktop including GTK

11/08/2015 09:57 PM

This tutorial is adopted from Fedora Magazine which describes the steps to be followed for upgrading Fedora 22 to Fedora 23.
I was using Fedora 21 since it's release. I experimented with Fedora 22 for one week and I was not happy with it's UI responsiveness and touch pad functionality. So I reverted back to Fedora 21. Then I wanted to upgrade to Fedora 23 when it was released. So I

11/08/2015 09:20 PM

The Korora Project announced availability of Korora 23 Beta, latest development release of upcoming Fedora 23 based GNU/Linux distribution that provides a inside the box operating system. Korora Project combines powerful Fedora base with multimedia codecs and other UI customization.
From official release announcement:
Our beta release is the last important milestone before the final